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Jupiter and Its Moons Modern Astronomy: Voyage to the Planets Lecture 6 Jupiter and its moons University of Sydney Centre for Continuing Education Autumn 2005 BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL! Please call The Australian Museum Society on 9320 6225, or book online at http://www.amonline.net.au/tams There have been five Pioneer 10 1973 Flyby spacecraft which performed flybys of Jupiter, and one – Pioneer 11 1974 Flyby Galileo – which orbited Voyager 1 1979 Flyby Jupiter for eight years. Voyager 2 1979 Flyby Orbiter and Galileo 1995–2003 probe Cassini 2000 Flyby Jupiter Basic facts Jupiter Jupiter/Earth Mass 1899 x 1024 kg 317.83 Radius 71,492 km 11.21 Mean density 1.326 g/cm3 0.240 Gravity (eq., 1 bar) 24.79 m/s2 2.530 Semi-major axis 778.57 x 106 km 5.204 Period 4332.589 d 11.862 Orbital inclination 1.304o - Orbital eccentricity 0.0489 2.928 Axial tilt 3.1o 0.133 Rotation period 9.9250 h 0.415 Length of day 9.9259 h 0.414 Jupiter is the most massive of the planets, 2.5 times the mass of the other planets combined. It is the only planet whose barycentre with the Sun actually lies above the Sun’s surface (1.068 solar radii from the Sun's centre). True colour picture of Jupiter, taken by Cassini on its way to Saturn during closest approach. The smallest features visible are only 60 km across. Jupiter exhibits differential rotation – the rotational period depends on latitude, with the equatorial zones rotating a little faster (9h 50m period) than the higher latitudes (9h 55m period). This must mean that Jupiter's visible surface is not solid but is fluid: a gas giant. Such a rapid rotation produces a noticeable bulge at the equator: Jupiter’s equatorial radius (71,500 km) exceeds its polar radius (66,900 km) by about 6.5%. Everything visible on the planet is a cloud. The parallel reddish-brown and white bands, the white ovals, and the large Great Red Spot persist over many years despite the intense turbulence visible in the atmosphere. The details of the cloud patterns change over hours or days. Like the other gas giants, Jupiter does not have solid surface. Its gaseous material simply gets denser with depth. What we see when looking at these planets is the tops of clouds high in their atmospheres (slightly above the 1 atmosphere level). Jupiter consists of 90% hydrogen, 10% helium, very similar to the composition of the Sun, with trace amounts of methane, water, ammonia, and hydrogen sulphide. The colours in the clouds arise from various minor constituents of the atmosphere, probably sulphur and phosphorus, and possibly even sophisticated compounds including simple amino acids. The mean density of Jupiter is 1326 kg/m3, less than a quarter the density of Earth, which implies the atmosphere must be very deep, possibly the entire planet. Jupiter probably contains a rocky core, about 10–15 Earth masses. The core is surrounded by metallic hydrogen, where the electrons have been ionised, at a pressure of 1,000,000 bar. Surrounding this is liquid hydrogen, which is surrounded by gaseous molecular hydrogen. There are no clear boundaries between these various phases. Jupiter’s atmospheric circulation is not primarily driven by the Sun. Jupiter’s centre still has residual heat from its formation 4.6 billion years ago, which means that it heats the atmosphere from below. Jupiter radiates about twice as much heat as it receives from the Sun. The large size of Jupiter combined with its rapid rotation means that the atmosphere at the equator travels at 48,000 km/h. The winds on Jupiter are confined in wide bands of latitude: these are easily visible on the globe. The light coloured stripes are called zones, the dark ones belts. The thin narrow dark stripes which separate the regions are known as bands. The equatorial regions of the atmosphere rotate faster than the planet, with an average flow speed of some 85 m/s, or about 300 km/h, in the easterly direction. Further away from the equator, there are alternating streams of westward and eastward flow, with the speed diminishing toward the poles. Wind speed measured relative to Jupiter’s internal rotation. Changes in wind direction are associated with the atmospheric band structure. The bright zones represent material rising, the dark belts material sinking. Jupiter’s rapid rotation is responsible for it having so many more circulation cells than Earth’s atmosphere. The colours of the clouds correlate with the temperature: cool clouds (about –140º C) are predominantly white, intermediate temperature (about –40º C) brown, while the warm clouds (about 0º C) are so deep that Rayleigh scattering makes them appear blue. Winds in adjacent bands blow in opposite directions, and turbulence builds up at the interface. True colour (left) and false colour infrared (right) images of part of the northern hemisphere, taken by Galileo. Jupiter’s northern hemisphere in violet light (left) and a methane band in the near-infrared (right). The smallest resolved features are tens of kilometres in size A belt-zone boundary near the equator. The regular bands are sometimes disturbed by giant storms. The most famous of these is the Great Red Spot, which has persisted for at least 350 years, since its discovery by Robert Hooke in 1664. The temperature of the GRS is low, implying that the top of the spot is higher than the surrounding clouds, like a giant mushroom. This implies air is rising from below and spreading out over the troposphere, possibly containing unusual chemicals which give it its characteristic colour. There are other permanent or semi-permanent features of the Jovian clouds: white ovals, brown barges, white anvils. The white ovals are anticyclones, since they rotate anticlockwise, and their cloud tops are high in the atmosphere. They are typically the size of the Earth. Hubble captured this sequence of images, showing the merger of white oval storms which had coexisted for about 60 years. The Galileo probe dropped into Jupiter’s atmosphere on the boundary between the Equatorial Band and the darker North Equatorial Belt. Much to everyone’s surprise, the probe did not detect the predicted three-layer cloud structure as it fell: in fact, it measured almost no clouds at all! (left) Visualisation of Jupiter’s atmosphere, looking between the cloud deck. The clear hotspot where the Galileo probe fell appears as a dark blue feature. (below) What the probe found, compared with what was expected. It appears that the probe had the bad luck to fall into a hole in the clouds of Jupiter, one of the very few areas where the clouds were so thin as to be almost invisible. The probe entry site appears to be one of the clearest and driest on the planet. Jupiter has a powerful magnetic field, 10 times stronger at its cloud tops than Earth’s. The Jovian magnetic field's "north" magnetic pole is at the planet’s geographic south pole, with the axis tilted 11º from the rotation axis. The magnetosphere extends more than 650 million km – past the orbit of Saturn, making it the largest “object” in the solar system. Jupiter's moons therefore lie within its magnetosphere, with major effects on Io, as we will see. Jupiter’s magnetic field produces intense auroras, thousands of times brighter than any auroral display on Earth. The Jovian moons Jupiter has (at least) 63 known satellites. The largest four were discovered by Galileo, and bear his name. There are also four small satellites inside Io’s orbit – Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea and Thebe; together these eight are the regular satellites. Europa and Callisto in front of Jupiter, taken by Cassini. Io, Europa and Ganymede are locked together in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance, and their orbits evolve together. In a few hundred million years, Callisto will be Callisto locked in too, orbiting at exactly twice the period of Ganymede (eight times the period of Io). Ganymede Europa Io The relative sizes of the orbits of the Galilean satellites. The moons are not to scale. 106 km Then outside Callisto’s orbit is a whole swarm of tiny satellites, all irregular, and most in retrograde orbits. Jupiter also has a system of rings. The main ring is about 6500 km wide, and less than 10 km thick. The main ring is composed of fine particles knocked off Adrastea and Metis. Impacts by small meteoroids into these small, low-gravity satellites feed material into the rings. There is an inner ring called the halo, and a third, outer ring called the gossamer ring. This actually consists of two rings, which are microscopic debris from the tiny moons Amalthea and Thebe. The “ring-shepherding” satellites are shown in their correct relative sizes. From left to right, arranged in order of increasing distance from Jupiter, are Metis (longest dimension is approximately 60 km), Adrastea (20 km), Amalthea (247 km), and Thebe (116 km). Amalthea is the reddest object in the solar system, probably due to sulphur from Io. Amalthea's density is about the same as water, and since it is unlikely to be composed of ice, it is most likely porous with lots of empty space. New satellites continue to be discovered and named: the following IAU Circular announced the official names of ten more satellites just last month. The Galilean satellites Io Europa Ganymede Callisto The four Galilean satellites are worlds in their own right; in many ways, they make up a planetary system in miniature. Callisto Ganymede Europa Io Moon Diameter (km) 4821 5262 3122 3643 3475 Mass (1021 kg) 107.6 148.2 48.0 89.3 73.5 Density (g/cm3) 1.83 1.94 3.01 3.53 3.34 Gravity (g) 0.126 0.146 0.134 0.184 0.163 Rotation period (h) 400.5 171.7 85.2 42.5 655.7 Orbital distance (103 km) 1883 1070 671 422 384 Orbital period (d) 16.7 7.2 3.6 1.8 27.3 Orbital eccentricity 0.007 0.0015 0.0101 0.004 0.055 All of them are rotationally locked to Jupiter, and there is a definite trend in density as a function of distance from Jupiter.
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